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The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man

Englisht by John Lydgate, A.D. 1426, from the French of Guillaume De Deguileville, A.D. 1330, 1355. The Text Edited by F. J. Furnivall ... With Introduction, Notes, Glossary and Indexes by Katharine B. Locock
Lydgate, John (1370?-1451?)

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DE GUILLEVILLE'S PILGRIMAGE OF THE LIFE OF MAN
 
Prolog of the Translator, John Lydgate.
 
Her be-gynneth the prologue of the auctour.
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Here begynneth the pylgrym.
 
The ffyrste verse off the song:
 
The secunde verse:
 
The thryde verse:

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Sapyence axeth:

Quod Sapyence to hym ageyn,
‘Than axe I the (no thyng in veyn,)
Yiff thow knowe auht, answere to me,
The inward gret capacyte
Off an herte, wych ys so smal;
And yiff yt myghte (to reknen al,)
Be fully fed in any wyse;
Or what thyng myghte to yt suffyse
To appese hys gret delyt,
Or staunche hys gredy appetyt.’
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